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Series
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Central European Department: Registered Files (EN...
Catalogue reference: FCO 175
What's it about?
FCO 175
This series contains the annual policy files created by the East European Department and subsequently the Central European Department and the Central and North West European Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FCO 175
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Central European Department: Registered Files (EN Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1992-1995
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the annual policy files created by the East European Department and subsequently the Central European Department and the Central and North West European Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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These records complement earlier material held in FCO 28
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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EN
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968-1968
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Eastern European Department, 1984-1992
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1843 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2021 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has always had custody of these files
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing annually
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- FCO has internal registers relating to these records
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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This material is subject to selection in line with Operational Selection Policy 13 ("Britain's Diplomatic Relations 1973-1996").
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The East European Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was established in 1984 when the Eastern European and Soviet Department split into two separate departments.
The department covered UK political and economic relations with Eastern European countries which were not part of the Soviet Union. These countries include The Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and Slovakia.
The East European Department changed its name in 1993 to the Central European Department after the lifting of the Iron Curtain.
After 1995 the department took responsibility for the Baltic States. The files of the Eastern Adriatic Unit were covered by the department until 1994 when it became its own department.
The department?s name changed again in 2000 to the Central and North West European Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16834133/
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